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Have you ever fantasized about having the ability to tap into the thoughts, beliefs and private impressions of those around you? According to influential author and thinker William Walker Atkinson, you don't have to have a psychic gift to be able to see into the innermost workings of the human mind. Instead, Atkinson posits that mind reading is a type of extreme attention to detail that can be practiced and improved on over time. Practical Mind-Reading includes tips and tricks to help you improve your awareness of others' concealed emotions.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 août 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776527366
Langue	English

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PRACTICAL MIND-READING
LESSONS ON THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE, TELEPATHY, MENTAL-CURRENTS, MENTAL RAPPORT, ETC.
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WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON

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Practical Mind-Reading Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, etc. First published in 1907 ISBN 978-1-77652-736-6 © 2013 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
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Lesson I - The Nature of Mind Reading Lesson II - The Proofs of Mind Reading Lesson III - "Contact" Mind Reading Lesson IV - Development Exercises Lesson V - Simple Demonstrations Lesson VI - Difficult Demonstrations Lesson VII - Sensational Feats Lesson VIII - Higher Phenomena
Lesson I - The Nature of Mind Reading
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Only a few years ago the general public was in almost total ignorance ofthe great truth of Thought Transference, Thought Projection, Telepathy,or Mind Reading. It is true that here and there were to be found a fewscientists earnestly investigating and eagerly uncovering the hiddentruths concerning the subjects. But the mass of the people were eitherentirely ignorant of the subject, or else were intensely skeptical ofany thing concerning the matter, laughing to scorn the daring thinkerwho ventured to express his interest or belief in this great scientificphenomena.
But how different to-day. On all hands we hear of the wonders of ThoughtTransference, or Telepathy, as it is called. Scientific men write andteach of its fascinating manifestations, and even the general public hasheard much of the new science and believes more or less in it, accordingto the degree of intelligence and knowledge concerning the subjectpossessed by the individual. Listen to these words from the lips of someof the greatest scientists of the day.
Prof. William James, the eminent instructor at Harvard University, says:"When from our present advanced standpoint we look back upon the paststages of human thought, whether it be scientific thought or theologicalthought, we are amazed that a universe which appears to us of so vastand mysterious a complication should ever have seemed to anyone solittle and plain a thing. Whether it be Descartes' world or Newton's;whether it be that of the Materialists of the last century, or that ofthe Bridgewater treatises of our own, it is always the same tous—incredibly perspectiveless and short. Even Lyell's, Faraday's,Mill's and Darwin's consciousness of their respective subjects arealready beginning to put on an infantile and innocent look." Theseremarks are doubly significant by reason of their having been made byProf. James as the president of the "Society for Psychical Research."
The eminent English scientist, Sir William Crookes, in his address aspresident of the Royal Society, at Bristol, England, a few years ago,said: "Were I now introducing for the first time these inquiries to theworld of science, I should choose a starting point different from thatof old, where we formerly began. It would be well to begin withtelepathy; with the fundamental law, as I believe it to be, that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to another withoutthe agency of the recognized organs of sense —that knowledge may enterthe human mind without being communicated in any hitherto known orrecognized ways. Although the inquiry has elicited important facts withreference to the mind, it has not yet reached the scientific stage ofcertainty which would enable it to be usefully brought before one of oursections. I will therefore confine myself to pointing out the directionin which scientific investigation can legitimately advance. If telepathytake place, we have two physical facts—the physical change in the brainof A. the suggestor, and the analogous physical change in the brain ofB. the recipient of the suggestion. Between these two physical eventsthere must exist a train of physical causes. Whenever the connectingsequence of intermediate causes begins to be revealed, the inquiry willthen come within the range of one of the sections of the BritishAssociation. Such a sequence can only occur through an interveningmedium. All the phenomena of the Universe are presumably in some waycontinuous, and it is unscientific to call in the aid of mysteriousagencies when with every fresh advance in knowledge, it is shown thatether vibrations have powers and attributes abundantly equal to anydemand—even the transmission of thought."
Prof. Crookes then went on to say: "It is supposed by some physiologiststhat the essential cells of nerves do not actually touch, but areseparated by a narrow gap which widens in sleep while it narrows almostto extinction during mental activity. This condition is so singularlylike that of a Branly or Lodge coherer (a device which has led Marconito the discovery of wireless telegraphy) as to suggest a furtheranalogy. The structure of brain and nerve being similar, it isconceivable that there may be present masses of such nerve coherers inthe brain whose special function it may be to receive impulses broughtfrom without through the connecting sequence of ether waves ofappropriate order of magnitude. Roentgen has familiarized us with anorder of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallestwaves of which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensionscomparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of whichthe material universe is built up; and there is no reason for believingthat we have here reached the limit of frequency. It is known that theaction of thought is accompanied by certain molecular movements in thebrain, and here we have physical vibrations capable from their extrememinuteness of acting direct upon individual molecules, while theirrapidity approaches that of the internal and external movements of theatoms themselves."
A formidable range of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before weeffectually grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages soinscrutable, as the direct action of mind on mind. It has been saidthat nothing worth the proving can be proved, nor yet disproved. Truethis may have been in the past, it is true no longer. The science of ourcentury has forged weapons of observation and analysis by which theveriest tyro may profit. Science has trained and fashioned the averagemind into habits of exactitude and disciplined perception, and in sodoing has fortified itself for tasks higher, wider and incomparably morewonderful than even the wisest among our ancestors imagined. Like thesouls in Plato's myth that follow the chariot of Zeus, it has ascendedto a point of vision far above the earth. It is henceforth open toscience to transcend all we now think we know of matter, and to gain newglimpses of a profounder scheme of Cosmic Law. In old Egyptian days awell-known inscription was carved over the portal of the Temple of Isis:'I am whatever has been, is, or ever will be; and my veil no man hathyet lifted.' Not thus do modern seekers after truth confront Nature—theword that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily,unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from whatshe is, to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yetshall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows morebeautiful, august and wonderful with every barrier that is withdrawn.
Camille Flamarrion, the eminent French astronomer, is a believer inThought Transference and Mind Reading, and has written the followingexpression of his convictions on this subject: "We sum up, therefore,our preceding observations by the conclusion that one mind can act at adistance upon another, without the habitual medium of words, or anyother visible means of communication . It appears to us altogetherunreasonable to reject this conclusion if we accept the facts. There isnothing unscientific, nothing romantic, in admitting that an idea caninfluence the brain from a distance. The action of one human being uponanother, from a distance is a scientific fact; it is as certain as theexistence of Paris, of Napoleon, of Oxygen, or of Sirius." The sameauthority has also said "There can be no doubt that our psychical forcecreates a movement of the ether, which transmits itself afar like allmovements of ether and becomes perceptible to brains in harmony with ourown . The transformation of a psychic action into an ethereal movement,and the reverse, may be analogous to what takes place on a telephone,where the receptive plate, which is identical with the plate at theother end, reconstructs the sonorous movement transmitted, not by meansof sound, but by electricity."
We have quoted at length from this eminent authority to show once andfor all that this great science of MIND-READING is recognized, andapproved of by the highest authorities on Modern Science, and also togive our students the benefit of the current scientific theories uponthe subject. In this work we have but very little to say about theory,but shall confine ourselves to facts, and actual instruction.
Science knows and has proven that thoughts may be and have beentransmitted from one mind to another, in some cases over thousands ofmiles of space, but it has not as yet solved the mystery of the "Why" ofthe subject, and contents itself with explaining the "How." The nearestapproach to a correct theory seems to be the one which compares the mindwith the "wireless telegraph," and which supposes that the vibrations ofthought travel through the ether, just as do the waves of this hig